Improvement in water-reservoirs for cooking-stoves



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Cooking Stove. No. 88,160. Patented March 23, 1869.

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To all whom, it may concern @iw. O r 1% fifties intent @Jfti Letters Patent No. 88,160, dated March 23, 1869. T

IMFROVEMENT IN WATER-RESERVOIR$ POR'COOKING-STOVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY O. GREENE, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have "invented certain new and useful I'mprovements in Water-Reservoir Cooking-Stoves and Ranges; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- I Figure 1 is. a perspective view of a cooking-stove,

embodying my improvementor invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section, taken through the water-reservoir, or tank; and

Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section, showing a heating-chamber next the water-reservoirs side.

Thesame letters refer to like parts in each of the said figures.

The object of my said invention is to make a hotwater reservoir, or tank, when combined with-a cooking-stove, or range, more accessible, and easy to put in and take out water therefrom, and also to locate and combine.the water-reservoir, or tank, with the stove, or range, in a more compact, intimate, and firm manner; and

The distinguishing feature, or nature of my said invention consists in locating and arranging the waterreservoir, or tank directly under, and suspending it from the hearth-plates and ash-pit of the stove, and in combination therewith; in such a manner that the said hearth-plates and ash-pit together, shall then form the top covering of the said water-reservoir, or tank;

and it shall also form, then, the end-side, or wall of the stave, at and below the said hearth-plates and ash-pit, and next to or adjoining the oven thereof, in manner substantially as hereinafter fully described and shown, and whereby the water-reservoir, or tank is rendered more convenient of access to put in and take out water therefrom; and the combination of the water-reservoir, with the stove, is made more intimate, compact, and strong,

and thereby forming a hot-water reservoir cooking-' stove, or rang of aless number of plates, or castings, than heretofore required.

To enable others skilled'in the art to make my invention, I now proceed to fully describe its construction.

' The stove, or range is constructed with diving-fines and an oven, in the usual manner, excepting that part under the hearth-plates and ash-pit, or ash-bottom, and next adjoining the oven thereof, which part is constructed as follows:

The ash-bottom plate D, and ash-pit O, with side hearth-plates, E E, are made in one piece, in the form substantially, and are mounted in the stove in the positionandiu manner as shown in fig. 1 of the annexed drawings, so that they areheld tight in their place by the side plates, or jambs of the stove, and leave the front below the ash-pit, or bottom next the oven, H,

open.

A water-reservoir, or tank B, is made of cast metal, and having its back side, or wall notched so that it shall fit snug to the under side of the ash-bottom, D, and it is also provided with holding-lugs, a a, at each end thereof, which are perforated, to receive holdingbolts.

This reservoir, or tank, after first having its joiningplaces at or under the hearth-plates and ash-pit O, and also the reservoir-top edges properly coated with white or red-lead cement, or with any other proper cement, so as to make a water-tight joint thereat, is then adj ustedin position under and joining the hearthplates E E and ash-pit'O, with its back bottom edge resting upon the front edge of the bottom plate of the stove, and it is then secured firmly and permanently in such suspended position, from under the ash-pit O and hearth-plates E E, by means of the bolts and nuts- I) b, in manner substantially as shown."

The water-reservoir, or tank B, as thus arranged and secured in position, also forms directly, by means of its wall, or side, J, the end-side, or front wall of the oven, H, theoven-bottom plate, 0, in that case, extending to and joining with the water-reservoirs side, in manner as shown in fig. 2 of the annexed drawings, and the water in the reservoir is heated mainly by heat radiated from the oven.

An opening, G, is made through the hearth-plates E E, on each side of the ash-pit .0, which gives, therethrough, accessto the interior of the water-reservoir, to put inandtake out water therefrom.

The openings G are provided with either removable covers or hinged lids, F, which, when closed there over, form a part of the hearth-plates level surface.

. In fig. 4 of the annexed drawings, the wate'r-reservoir, or tank B, is shown as combined and arranged with the front of the stove, in the same manner'as shown in figs. 1 and'2,'except the oven H, and-its bottom plate, 0, which are shortened some in lengt and a vertical plate, N, extends from the ash-bottom D, to the bottom p'late 0-, and from side to side of the stove, so as to form, between the oven and waterreservoir, a heating-chamber, d, in manner substantially as shown.

. As this water-reservoir, or tank B, is located wholly and suspended from below the ash-pit O, and forward of the fire-box, or fire-place, I, the water therein is heated by the radiation of heat from the oven H, to

the reservoir-wall, or side-I, which,-practically, is suf- ,ficient to cause a continuous rising current of warm water at and near the reservoirs side, J, in mannerv about as shown by the arrows in the drawing, until the water therein is equally heated.

In the construction of the front part of "the stove,

in manner as shown in fig. 4 of the annexed drawings, and hereinbefore described, the heating-chamber, (1, makes connection with the bottom flue-space, K, in manner so that currents of heat, when passing through the flue-space K, rise and fill said chamber ll, and ra; diate, orirnpinge thereat, directly on the reservoifls side, or wall, J, which, thus heats the water therein, the same as when heated by direct radiation from the oven H, as before described.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent, is-

1. In combination with a cooking-stove, or range, the location and suspension of a hot-water reservoir, or tank, B, from below or under the ash-pit O, and its side hearth-plates E E, and next to or adjoining the oven H thereof, in manner substantially as hereinbefore described and shown, for the purpose set forth.

2. In cooking-stoves, or ranges, the combination and attachment of the water-reservoir, or tank thereof, with and'to the hearth-plates E E and ash-pit 0, when extended outward from below the fire-grate, or fireplace, I, in manner so as to form, together, a covering for the top of said reservoir B, and also to hold and support the same in permanent suspended position from thereunder, substantially as herein set forth,

3. The combination of the hinged lifting, or removable oover or covers F, with the hearth-plates E E, opening Gr, ash-pit O, and water-reservoir, or tank B of a cooking stove, when arranged at the side, or sides of the ash-pit G, and so as to form apart of the hearths surface, adjoining said ash-pit, when closed over said water-reservoir opening G, in manner substantially as set forth and shown.

4-. Forming the end-wall, or side of a cooking-stove, or range, below the hearth-plates D E and ash-pit G, and next the oven H thereof, by means of a Water-reservoir, or tanks side, J, when arranged in combination therewith, in manner substantially as described and shown.

5. As arranged with a diving-flue cooking-stove, or range, the combination of the hearth-pates E E, ashpit G, and water-reservoir, or tank B, when suspended therefrom, as described, with the heating-chamber d, ovenH, and oven bottom flue-space K, in manner substantially as herein shown, for the purpose set forth.

OHAUNOEY O. GREENE.

Witnesses:

J. J. SAVAGE, G. F. SIMs. 

